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« Florida and open carry | Main | Clinton, Brady Center try to Bern Sanders »

Albuquerque self defense shooting spike

Posted by David Hardy · 24 January 2016 11:29 AM

Story here. In some years, repeat some years, the justifiable homicides have made up around 15% of total homicides. The overall average appears to be about 5%.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

James Gibson | January 24, 2016 11:22 PM | Reply

Died how the person making this report blew right past the fact that in one case two armed men broke in a home, and sot a resident before one of them was shot. Seems its more important that the public is trigger happy and not when the assailants are already shooting.

Peter | January 25, 2016 1:43 PM | Reply

"Homicides determined to be justified sparked national debate following the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Martin was unarmed and walking near his home when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, who claimed to have acted in self-defense. Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death."
Just some poor kid out walking gets shot by a gun nut.
Yeah.

New New Mexican | January 27, 2016 3:24 AM | Reply

I just moved to Albuquerque. Over the weekend, I was in a coffee shop next to two men loudly talking about politics. One of them said he didn't believe the poll (mentioned in the linked article) showing that 50% of New Mexicans owned a gun "because no one HE knew owned a gun." (Little did he know that he was only feet from the cocked & locked Colt Mustang in my pocket.) Somehow we need to increase the visibility of gun ownership in a non-threatening way, to challenge the attitudes of people like this. Tasteful open carry seems to be part, but not all, of the solution. What else can we do?

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